The Weird Sister Collection - Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture

"Edited by the blog's founder, Marisa Crawford, The Weird Sister Collection brings together essays about literature, feminism, and contemporary social issues by contributors to the Weird Sister blog such as Morgan Parker, Christopher Soto, Soleil Ho, Juliâan Delgado Lopera, Virgie Tovar, Jennif(f)er Tamayo, and more, alongside new original essays and a foreword by Michelle Tea"--

List of contents

• "The Books of Feminists Are in Every Place (A Comic Diary)" by Amanda K. Davidson, May 2015
• "Best Literary Sex: If Beale Street Could Talk" by Camille Wanliss, February 2017
• "On Breaking the Bad Bitch Archetype in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child" by Naomi Extra, June 2015
• "The Nuclear Family / The Nuclear Bomb: Revisiting Kate Zambreno’s O Fallen Angel in Trump America" by Sam Cohen, January 2017
• [Trace Peterson piece on transfeminine poetic traditions] by Trace Peterson, December 2022
• "The Coldest Winter Ever: A Coming-of-Age Tale & Hip-Hop Opera" by Vanessa Willoughby, January 2016
• "A Witch’s Reading Report" by Grace Kredell, October 2019
• "Fifty Shades of Grey & Why I Keep Defending Women’s Trash" by Caolan Madden, March 2015
• "The White Male Canon in 90s Pop Songs" by Marisa Crawford, December 2014
• "My Feminist Literary Grudges" by Olivia Campbell, November 2022
• "Writing the Wound: A Letter to Hélène Cixous" by Zoe Tuck, July 2022
• "Emily Dickinson: Subversive Kin" by Christina Olivares, October 2022
• "The Honesty of Jean Rhys" by Kristin Sanders, September 2016
• "The Many Names of Barbara Grier" by Megan Milks, November 2022
• "Reproductive Agency in Sylvia Plath’s Three Women" by Marisa Crawford, October 2016
• "Revisiting Raven: Thoughts on Zora, Nina, and Take-Down Culture" by Naomi Extra, January 2015
• "ALL THE FEMINIST BOOKS: Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer" by Becca Klaver, December 2014
• "The Tell-Tale Sign of Living: Blackness and Sensuality in Ntozoke Shange’s Nappy Edges" by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, October 2022
• "YASSS and NAWW: bell hooks and Laverne Cox at The New School" by Morgan Parker, October 2014
• "Sex Permeates Everything: The Poetry of Lola Ridge" by Terese Svoboda, February 2016
• "The Limits of Representation" by Christopher Soto, October 2015
• "On the Road with Sister Spit" by Virgie Tovar, March 2017
• "We Out (T)here: Afrofuturism in the Age of Non-Indictments" by Morgan Parker, January 2015
• "Bad or Boring: Doing Without Ethics in Poetry" by Caolan Madden, March 2015
• "Yi-Fen Chou and the Man Who Wore Her" by Soleil Ho, September 2015
• "We Were There: Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter at The New Museum" by Hossannah Asuncion, September 2016
• "On Being Unreasonable" by Jennif(f)er Tamayo, October 2015
• "The Zack Morris Cell Phone Aesthetic" by Becca Klaver, April 2015
• "Soy Emo, Hemorragia: A bilingual guide to bleeding properly" by Julián Delgado Lopera, September 2015
• "10 Images of Women Writing on Screen" by Li Patron, March 2016
• "Black Grrrl Joy on the 30th Anniversary of Ferris Bueller: LaSloane Peterson’s Snow Day Off" by Aja Love, August 2016
• "How Girls See Girls: A Closer Look at Pretty Little Liars" by Flannery Cashill, April 2017
• "Twin Freaks: Being Both Victim and Protector" by Emily Brandt, November 2014
• "Rejecting Forgiveness Culture: Women in Revenge Films" by Rios de la Luz, May 2016
• "I’m Moving Out of Shondaland" by Morgan Parker, December 2014
• "Chronology Doesn’t Always Feel Good: An Interview with Eileen Myles" by Cathy de la Cruz , October 2015
• "It’s Kinda Creepy Because I Am: An Interview with Myriam Gurba" by Gina Abelkop, March 2016
• "Tender Points: An Interview with Amy Berkowitz" by Geraldine Kim, June 2015
• "Voice, Form & Politics: Talking with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about June Jordan" by Marisa Crawford, March 2016

About the author

Marisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Diary (Spuyten Duyvil, forthcoming 2023), Reversible, and The Haunted House, and coeditor, with Megan Milks, of We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays & Artwork from Grown-Up Readers. Marisa’s writing has appeared in The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, Hyperallergic, BUST, and elsewhere. Marisa is the creator and editor-in-chief of Weird Sister, a website and organization that explores the intersections of feminism, literature, and pop culture, and cohost of the nineties rock podcast All Our Pretty Songs. She lives in New York.

Summary

Collecting the best of the underground blog Weird Sister, these unapologetic and insightful essays link contemporary feminism to literature and pop culture.

Launched in 2014, Weird Sister proudly staked out a corner of the internet where feminist writers could engage with the literary and popular culture that excited or enraged them. The blog made space amid book websites dominated by white male editors and contributors, and also committed to covering literary topics in-depth when larger feminist outlets rarely could. Throughout its decade-long run, Weird Sister served as an early platform for some of contemporary literature’s most striking voices, naming itself a website that “speaks its mind and snaps its gum and doesn’t apologize.”

Edited by founder Marisa Crawford, The Weird Sister Collection brings together the work of longtime contributors such as Morgan Parker, Christopher Soto, Soleil Ho, Julián Delgado Lopera, Virgie Tovar, Jennif(f)er Tamayo, and more, alongside new original essays. Offering nuanced insight into contemporary and historical literature, in conversation with real-life and timely social issues, these pieces mark a transitional and transformative moment in online and feminist writing.

Foreword

• Both digital and print ARCs available June 2023
  

• ARCs to sales reps, as well as select indie bookseller mailing
  

• Both digital and print ARCs sent to media for national print, radio, and online campaign; targeted to outlets focused on the following coverage: feminist and social justice issues, women's interest, queer/LGBTQ+ interest, literary and pop culture criticism
  

• Support for 2-3 US-city bookstore events, featuring contributors, as well as at least one virtual event
  

• Promotion on Feminist Press e-newsletter, website, and social media channels
  

• Promotion on editor and contributors’ website and social media channels
  

• Social media campaign, with the book promoted by key literary influencers focusing on feminist criticism, literature and pop culture, and nostalgia and online writing
  

Product details

Assisted by	Marisa Crawford (Editor)
Publisher	Ingram Publishers Services
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Release	13.02.2024, delayed
EAN	9781558613003
ISBN	978-1-55861-300-3
No. of pages	264
Subjects	Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist

Product details

• Assisted by: Marisa Crawford (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 13.02.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781558613003
• ISBN: 978-1-55861-300-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist